Murdoch

Murdoch and his minions have managed to set back for decades the notion of privacy. It was Murdoch's news entities, including Fox News and his tabloids in the United Kingdom and United States that were at the forefront of claiming a "new normalcy" after the 9/11 attacks ten years ago. The propaganda of fear coincided with the government's of George W. Bush and Tony Blair ushering into law draconian measures that put every citizen and resident of the United States and United Kingdom under suspicion as a potential "terrorist"...

Corporate power is immense. President Obama may lose the next election because he has brought in a universal health care system. “The Tea Party” element of the Republican Party, which represents raw undiluted capitalism, not only condemns any sort of public healthcare system – something most western countries take for granted – it blames President Obama for trying to clean up the fiscal mess they left behind which was the consequence of Republican de-regulation of the money markets…

Even if we accept that there was a plausible military imperative to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki – to bring about a swift defeat of Japan and thus an end to the Pacific War – the horror of civilian death toll from those two no-warning aerial attacks places a disturbing question over the supposed ends justifying the means...